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Down to the bonny glen

by Melissa Wiley

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In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager.

FamilyJuvenile fictionFictionGovernessesHistoryChildren's fictionScotland, history, fiction